The 2009 Rhysling Awards
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Short Poem Category First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
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Winner Biographies and Award Photos
The 2009 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2008
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Short Poems First Published in 2008
Diana Adams • Frankenstein's Ice Mirror •
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry 3.1 (Summer 2008).
Mary Alexandra
Agner • So Many Lullabies •
Strange Horizons (March 17, 2008).
Brian
Aldiss • The Deceptive Truth •
A Prehistory of Mind (Mayapple Press, 2008).
Francis W.
Alexander • Don't Get Too Close To the Baby •
Star*Line 31.4 (July/August 2008).
Mike
Allen • Midnight Rendezvous, Philly •
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2008).
Mike
Allen • Return of Zombie Teen Angst •
Asimov's Science Fiction 393/394 (October/November 2008).
Aaron
Benson • Von Neumann's Poem •
Strange Horizons (July 28, 2008).
F.J.
Bergmann • Pandora's Box, Afterward •
qaartsiluni: Insecta (1/9/2008).
Anthony
Bernstein • Piece of Mind •
Zygote in My Coffee 102 (February 2008).
Bruce
Boston • Dystopian Dusk •
Strange Horizons (August 4, 2008).
Chris
Burdette • The Gnome's Spectacles •
Niteblade (June 2008).
Christopher M.
Cevasco • Four Haiku Poems on Artificial Intelligence •
Star*Line 31.1 (January/February 2008).
G.O.
Clark • World's Oldest Profession 2.0 •
Star*Line 31.4 (July/August 2008).
Billy
Collins • The Future •
The New Yorker (February 24, 2008).
Malcolm
Deeley • Pygmalion •
Mythology (November 2008).
James S.
Dorr • Emile's Ghosts •
Illumen 4.2 (Spring 2008).
Amal
El-Mohtar • Songs to an Ancient City •
Mythic Delirium 19 (Summer/Fall 2008).
Francesca
Forrest • Songs were washing up •
Scheherezade's Bequest 6 (September 2008).
Bryn
Fortey • A Taxi Driver on Mars •
Awen 53 (August 2008).
Joshua
Gage • A Mother Speaks •
Goblin Fruit (Fall 2008).
Joshua
Gage • The Illuminator •
MindFlights 2 (February 5, 2008).
Jeannine Hall
Gailey • Aware for the Woman who Disappears in Silence •
Mythic Delirium 18 (Winter/Spring 2008).
Jeannine Hall
Gailey • Green Willow Wife •
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry 3.1 (Summer 2008).
Delbert R.
Gardner • Tammuz to Ishtar •
Mythic Delirium 19 (Summer/Fall 2008).
Charles
Gramlich • [faint] •
Wanting the Mouth of a Lover (Spec House of Poetry, 2008)
Todd
Hanks • Collage •
Dreams and Nightmares 80 (May 2008).
Samantha
Henderson • Spell •
Goblin Fruit (Fall 2008).
Samantha
Henderson • The Seasons' Dying •
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2008).
Deborah P
Kolodji • Animal Rescue •
Lone Star Stories 26 (April 1, 2008).
Deborah P
Kolodji • Camera Obscura •
Raven Electrick (March 2008).
Deborah P
Kolodji • Six Miles from Nowhere •
Phantom Seed 2 (Autumn 2008).
David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans •
In the Slipstream of the Levee's Overflow •
Tales of the Talisman 3.4 (March 2008).
Rose
Lemberg • Odysseus on the War Train •
Abyss & Apex 27 (Summer 2008).
Sandra
Lindow • Green Cotillions •
Touched by the Gods (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008).
Sandra
Lindow • The A.I.'s Table Prayer •
Tales of the Unanticipated 29 (Autumn/Winter 2008).
Joy
Marchand • The Midwife's Progress •
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2008).
Pam
McNew • No Word for Goodbye •
Sybil's Garage 5.
Edward
Morris • My Addiction •
Helix 8 (April 2008).
Kristine Ong
Muslim • Pavlov's Best Friend •
Abyss & Apex (July 2008).
Karen L.
Newman • Internet Witch •
Raven Electrick (September 2008).
Rhonda
Parrish • Lovers •
Star*Line 31.4 (July/August 2008).
Caitlyn
Paxson • To the Royal Society of Cryptozoologists from the Concerned Daughter
of a Member •
Goblin Fruit (Winter 2008).
Terrie Leigh
Relf • [eruptions] •
The Shantytown Anomaly 7 (October 2008).
Terrie Leigh
Relf • There, where the universe begins •
Astropoetica 6.2 (Spring 2008).
Mark
Rich • Streamside •
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.3 (Spring 2008).
Karen A.
Romanko • The Invisible Woman Runs for President •
Strange Horizons (December 22, 2008).
Greg
Schwartz • Bats •
Ashen Eye (March 2008).
Peter
Sears • Dear Giant Squid •
Luge (Cloudbanks Books, 2008).
Marge
Simon • The Astronaut's Return •
Strange Horizons (November 3, 2008).
J. E.
Stanley • Lunaticus (in D Minor) •
The Ghazal Page (July 2008).
Lynn
Strongin • A Sad, A Southern Face •
Doorways Magazine 5 (Spring 2008).
Sonya
Taaffe • Autopoiesis •
Lone Star Stories 26 (April 1, 2008).
Sonya
Taaffe • Cherries in Winter •
Goblin Fruit (Winter 2008).
Sonya
Taaffe • Logos •
Lone Star Stories 29 (October 1, 2008).
Sonya
Taaffe • The Devourer •
Mythic Delirium (Summer/Fall 2008).
Marcie
Tentchoff • Some Random Hero •
Strange Horizons (June 23, 2008).
Jen
Valencia • Becoming Fictional •
Tales of the Talisman 4.2 (Autumn 2008).
Sandy
Walejko • In the World •
Wisconsin People and Ideas 54.3 (Summer 2008).
Ian
Watson • Screams •
Asimov's Science Fiction (September 2008).
Jane
Yolen • Smells •
Doorways Magazine (October 2008).
Long Poems First Published in 2008
Mike Allen • Mondrian's War •
Strange Horizons (August 18, 2008).
Mike Allen & Ian Watson •
Zombie Bombs •
Helix 8 (April 2008).
C.S.E.
Cooney • Sedna •
Goblin Fruit (Winter 2008).
C.S.E.
Cooney • Wild Over Tombs Does Grow •
Doorways Magazine 5 (Spring 2008).
Camilla
DeCarnin • Tentacle 1 •
Tales of the Unanticipated 29 (Autumn/Winter 2008).
Malcolm
Deeley • Oracle •
Legends of the Fallen Sky (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008).
Malcolm
Deeley • Orpheus and Eurydice •
Mythology (November 2008).
Malcolm
Deeley • The Leviathan •
Legends of the Fallen Sky (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008).
Amal El-Mohtar & Catherynne M. Valente •
Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero; or, The City Is Never Finished • Lone Star Stories 30
(December 1, 2008).
Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel •
Death and Life on Enceladus •
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.3 (Spring 2008).
Gemma
Files • Mrs. Margaret Lovett, Her Book •
Mythic Delirium 18 (Winter/Spring 2008).
Cornelius
Fortune • Isotope Ballerina •
Tales of the Unanticipated 29 (Autumn/Winter 2008).
Joshua
Gage • The White Doe of Nara •
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2008).
Lyn C.A.
Gardner, The Dispossessed •
Helix 9 (Summer 2008).
Samantha
Henderson • Hungry: Some Ghost Stories •
Lone Star Stories 26 (April 1, 2008).
Linda
Hogan • Reveal •
Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, 2008)
Deborah P
Kolodji • Man'yoshu at Galactic Edge: Poems from the Courtesan •
Dreams and Nightmares 80 (May 2008).
Geoffrey A.
Landis • Search •
Helix 10 (October 2008).
Beth
Langford • The Night Market •
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2008).
Patrick
Lawler • Living on Burrowed Time •
Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts 7.2 (Fall 2008).
JM
McDermott •
3 Poems Called Cosmic •
Abyss & Apex (July 2008).
David
Memmott • Disciples of Paradox •
Strange Horizons (February 25, 2008).
Marsheila
Rockwell • Another Fairy Tale Ending •
Dreams and Nightmares 81 (September 2008).
J.C.
Runolfson • Transformation •
Strange Horizons (May 26, 2008).
William Browning
Spencer • The Love Song of A. Alhazred Azathoth •
Subterranean Press e-Newsletter.
Marcie Lynn
Tentchoff • On Waking •
Not One of Us 40 (October 2008).
Catherynne M.
Valente • Lessons in Thermodynamics •
Flytrap 9 (June 2008).
Catherynne M.
Valente • The Ballad of All the Things I Might Have Written •
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2008).
Catherynne M.
Valente • The Girl with Two Skins •
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2008).
JoSelle
Vanderhooft • The Sea Wife •
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.3 (Spring 2008).
Jessica Paige
Wick • How Wizards Duel •
Strange Horizons (May 12, 2008).
Jessica Paige
Wick • To the River •
Mythic Delirium 19 (Summer/Fall 2008).
Stephen
M. Wilson • Through the Looking-Glass, Darkly •
Hungur: Walpurgis Night (October 2008).
